Baba remarked: "Tibet, which was once considered to be the 'Seat of God,' is now transformed into a military camp due to the Chinese invasion."
He continued:
Real Seeing is seeing within. The Four Journeys are all within. Hardly one aspirant reaches the end of the First Journey! Before reaching the end, there are six stations [planes]. The First Journey ends in fana-fillah. Here, the pilgrim enjoys infinite power, knowledge and bliss, and is no longer a pilgrim, for he has attained the Goal. The Second Journey ends in baqa. Here the Realized One leads the Life of God. The Third Journey is the life of the Sadguru. He lives the life of man and God simultaneously together, and he is the Man-God.
At one point, an Ahmednagar lover expressed his wish of staying permanently near Baba.
Baba replied, "Whether you stay near me or away from me is not what matters. What matters is whether you remember me more and more, and know that I am God in human form. Kaikobad sees me wherever he may be, but to see me and become me are quite different things. It is better for you not to stay near me as you desire, for if you do, you will lose your shanti [peace of mind], and on the contrary there will be ashanti [no peace of mind]!"
The man protested, "But Baba, there is no peace in my worldly life either!"
To this, Baba retorted with a smile, "If there is no peace in worldly life, you can at least look forward to being with me. But if you are with me and lose your peace of mind, where will you go?"
Baba then explained some of the idiosyncrasies of Perfect Masters:
Babajan never bathed and yet always smelt fragrant. Nobody ever saw her attend the toilet either! In the early days, I used to visit Babajan daily along with Gustadji. Although she would not allow anyone to touch her person, she would ask me to scratch her head and back, and I would do so for hours. She used to sit and sleep in the open street without any shelter. She remained exposed to the seasons. She would go to sleep at 3:30 A.M. and get up at 4:30 A.M. as soon as the teashops opened. At that time, no one could persuade her to have some shelter built overhead where she used to sit under the neem tree, nor would she consent to have some sort of seat made for her, so she would not have to sit on the bare ground. But when I requested her, she allowed me to have a low wooden platform made for her, with a cotton mattress placed on it for her comfort.
The mattress has an amusing sequel for Gustadji, because one day when it rained heavily and the mattress got soaked, she had Gustadji carry it on his head so it could dry.
Babajan explained the reason to Gustadji, saying: "It is a very precious mattress because my son has given it to me."
Although Babajan would talk with others always in mysterious and cryptic sentences that were confusing to them, when alone with me her speech would be quite normal and clear. Once she related to me at length the story of her early life. The man her family had arranged for her to marry was from [or lived in] Baluchistan. On her wedding day she ran away and found her guru in Rawalpindi. When she was finally God-realized and asserted it, she was set upon as a heretic and buried. Some of those same Baluchis who had been present later came to Bombay and Poona and were dumbfounded to see her alive and revered. They were convinced of her divinity and became her followers.
Babajan had come all the way from her birthplace in Baluchistan and settled down in Poona, because of the Avatar's advent. She came to Poona solely for me!